If You Don’t Plan, You’re Planning to Fail

If You Don't Plan, You're Planning to Fail

Once it was accepted practice to foster skills through apprenticeships, internal and external training programs, graduate programs and the like. In the 1980’s and 1990’s the unrelenting pressure to cut costs to improve the bottom line commonly resulted in a gradual decay of the training budget. A mindset emerged that when skills were required, it…

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Tapped on the shoulder by a recruiter, what do you say or do?

Tapped on the shoulder by a recruiter, what do you say or do?

We encounter mixed reactions when we reach out to people about job opportunities. Some people react negatively when tapped on the shoulder by a recruiter, for various reasons: unfamiliarity, you’re busy, you’re not interested in another job or you simply do not like recruiters. Others see it as an opportunity to verify their market value…

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